2013 Jubilee Reunion 畢業金禧紀念

 

粵華中學大熊星社畢業金禧紀念

五十年不變，大家都耳熟能詳。一群畢業五十週年的粵華同學，雖然分散在世界各地，再次相約回到母校共聚一堂，慶祝一個特別的日子。

        二○一三年是英文部大熊星社（Great Bear II）畢業五十週年。半個世紀之後，約三十個同學再回到當年讀書的地方，與校長陳文彬及副校長伍助志及一班教職員等共聚。校長陳文彬對各同學回校的熱忱表示高興及對他們的成就加以讚賞。此外，校長及副校長還特別介紹粵華的創校歷史，歷任校長的功績，以及未來的發展等等。

        如眾所週知，學生的成功，全賴粵華擁有一個極優秀之教師團隊，國際知名。所教育的學生，歷屆人材輩出，為社会作出貢獻。

        由趙善威同學代表大熊星社向母校致謝，感激各位師長的指導、培訓。並簡述各同學畢業之後，無論繼續學業，營商或就業，均有所成，毋負母校的期望。各同學之中，營商者有四人，包括物流、製衣、珠寶及航運，更擁有自己的船隊，企業，工厰等；醫生有四人；從事銀行財經界有四人；專業人士如工程師、測量師，英國特許保險學會院士等三人；加入港澳公務員隊伍，包括亷政公署，工務局，房屋署等亦有數位。在各個領域都得到一定的成就。

        此外，大熊星社數位同學在畢業後以個人名義或班社名義捐贈七個獎學金，獎勵在學業成績優異之學生，對學弟起示範作用。該獎學金由梁星棋同學統籌，何廣凌神父，社友莫國興，潘澤生同學管理，轉眼己經連續頒發三十五年。今年，為紀念畢業五十年，響應獎學基金管理會呼籲籌募特別基金以鞏固長期收益，各同學合共捐贈壹萬元及另一位同學以個人名義捐贈壹萬元以示帶頭作用，作為回饋母校之一點心意，

大家從當年的少年到今日的長者，同學有緣，相聚歡笑。晚上，黎榮樂同學在萬豪軒設宴歡迎各地回歸同學，共歡而散。

1963 Great Bear II Club Jubilee Reunion

Chiu Sin Wai

        After half a century, we, the 1963 graduates of Yuet Wah College, members of Great Bear II Club (GBII)
visited our mother school on 2nd November 2013

         The Principal, Vice-Principal, teachers and students of Yuet Wah welcome our return. The Principal, Mr. Maung Sein Mying (陳文彬校長) briefed us the history of the college, contributions of the past Principals; and the recent development of the college. Indeed, Yuet Wah is now a famous college in Macau and is recognized by other international colleges and universities
                   

Mr. Chiu Sin-wai (趙善威), on behalf of GBII, expressed thanks to the mother school and teachers who had taught them.  Mr. Chiu also informed the graduates' own career and achievement after graduation. e.g. four of them had successfully established their own business including shipping, garment factories, logistical company; another four had achieved medical doctors degree; three had professional degrees; four had been executives of banks and international institutions, others as Hong Kong Government officials including ICAC, Building Department, Housing Department, as well as working as senior official at Macau Government.

       

In addition, the class and three members of GBII have donated seven scholarship awards to Yuet Wah in the past thirty-five years.  The scholarship  funds are managed by Mr. Leung Shing Kay Keith (梁星棋), Rev Fr. Petro Ho (何廣凌神父),  schoolmates Mr. Mok Kuok Heng (莫國興) and Mr. Poon Chak Sang (潘澤生)

       

After the reporting, the Vice-Principal Mr. Jorge Un Se (伍助志副校長) took us a tour of the College to end the memorial occasion.

 

Last but not least, in response to the Special Fund Raising of the Scholarship Management Committee, the class and Mr. Leung Shing Kay donated HK$20,000.00.

 .       Thanks to Mr. Leung Shing Kay who sponsored the buffet lunch and Mr. Cheng Koon Chue (鄭觀柱) for all red wine drinks on the occasion . 

 

All  evening dinner expenses were sponsored by Mr. Lai Wing Lok (黎榮樂) and red wines by Mr. Leung Shing Kay .

 

We had had a very happy gathering and hope to meet more frequently in future.

 

 

 

 

 

機緣巧合， 你出我入，你賣我寫

學友黎榮樂及梁星棋， 均有收藏之興趣；樂哥喜歡文玩字畫， 棋哥愛收銀紙銅錢；各有所好也。

時維二零一二年十月五日至七曰，香港蘇富比預展，黎榮樂有藏品二十餘張参加，其中扇面佔半以上：包括名家張大千、 于非闇、 吳湖、鄧芬、陸儼少、謝稚柳、黄賓虹、錢松喦、關山月、程十髮等近代大師之傑作，藝術價值之餘，還極具市場價值。

今回蘇富比徵得黎君首肯割愛其藏品之極少部份，以供同好者之渴求。翌日拍賣，全部以極高價拍出，皆大歡喜。

事有巧合，你出我入，梁星棋在另一方面拍入銀紙，為數不菲。两位藏家，同一時間之內，各得其所，誠趣事也。

又另一邊廂，趙善威同學應 "油尖區文化藝術協會" 之邀請，參加於十一月五日至八日在 "尖沙咀文化中心"舉辦之"香港名家扇面邀請展"，鐵畫銀釣，揮下兩張扇面參展。

 

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Beware of paper in the back window of your vehicle

From Keith Leung

BEWARE OF PAPER IN THE BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE
NEW WAY TO DO CAR JACKING
(NOT A JOKE)
Heads up everyone! Please, keep this circulating...
You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside.
You start the engine and shift into Reverse.
When you look into the rearview mirror to back out of your parking space, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window. So, you shift into Park, unlock your doors, and jump out of your car to remove that paper (or whatever it is) that is obstructing your view.
When you reach the back of your car, that is when the car jackers appear out of nowhere, jump into your car and take off.
They practically mow you down as they speed off in your car.
And guess what, ladies? I bet your purse is still in the car.
So now the car jacker has your car, your home address, your money, and your keys. Your home and your whole identity are now compromised!
BEWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS
NOW BEING USED....
If you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, just drive away.
Remove the paper later. And be thankful that you read this e-mail.
I hope you will forward this to friends and family, especially to women.
A purse contains all kinds of personal information and identification documents, and you certainly do NOT want this to fall into the wrong hands.

May 27, 2007

Hi Victor
Yes. That's the last we heard of Patrick and Raymond Tchou too
If you have any old photos or recent photos of our classmates at reunion or Yuet Wah I would appreciate seeing them.
I took my wife and kid there many years ago just to see where I went to school
I have often wondered where all our classmates are and what they are all doing. I forgot so many names
I remember Just you, Raymond and James Lai. But so many other names have escaped me but I can see their faces as plain as day.
Tell me whatever you can about them all.

Glad to hear that Mr. Wong joined you. I do remember how naughty we all were to him.
I can still remember the day someone put those popping fireworks on the raised platform next to the blackboard where teachers had to stand to reach the board.
Mr Chow walked on them and jumped when they popped. He was always mad at us for making his life miserable.
Do you have any pictures from those days??

Ernie

May 29, 2007

Hi Keith

Getting the photos of everyone at Yuet Wah motivated me hunt up the diary that I kept while I was in Macau.
I looked up todays' date and here's what I wrote back in this day on May 29, 1961 when we were all in Form III at Yuet Wah.

"Mr. Victal got mad in class today because some of the boys behind the "38th parallel" were talking while he was giving his lessons.
He walked out of the classroom and stayed outside our window. He came in some time later and threatened to go down to Fr. Rubini and lodge a complaint if the boy who was talking didn't volunteer to go to the blackboard and write down the lesson as punishment.
He counted to ten.
When he got to ten and no one confessed he stormed out of the room again.
Shortly he came back in and gave us all "one final warning."
At last Lo Wing Yu (number 21) stood up to confess. He confessed but showed no remorse."

Thought it might bring back some old memories

Ernie

June 2, 2007

Hi Frank
Thanks for the power point with all the photos of Modern Day Macau
I'll have to say the place has really changed.




I use to tell people if they wanted to see what old China looks like to visit Macau
I'm not going to say that anymore.
The place looks so modern and cosmopolitan now.
Like you I didn't recognize anything except a couple of old monuments.
We were last there about 23 years ago so all this has taken place since then because I don't remember seeing anything so modern when I was last there.
I was really impressed...but a little sad that all the cobblestone streets and old buildings are gone.
Victor said our old house is still there, though.

Thanks for the family photo
I put it on the photo album

Victor sent more photos of our old classmates today. I added them. I don't recognize a lot of them so hopefully someone will add their names.

Ernie

June 3, 2007

Hi Ernie:

Here are 2 photos taken yesterday with James Lai who had been lost contact more than 40 years. I saw in your past diary James was one of the good friends with you in school time.


Did you also lose contact? His email address is: Jameslai@peoplepc.com. He will return to Indiana USA on 8th this month.

Another photos are taken at your old house location, Is one of the 2 low buildings your old house?




I am now organizing the old photos before sending you to enrich the Yuetwah.blogspot.com.

Keith

June 4, 2007

Hi Victor
Wow. I'm glad you found James Lai. We spent a lot of time hanging out together back in those days. I mention him a lot in my diary. I will write to him. Several old boys are in the United States now

Peter and Paul are coming to San Francisco next week. I will be in Lake Tahoe with friends but will try to see if I can come back earlier so I can see them in SF. I'd really like to see them again. I can still recognize Paul from the recent photos you all sent
He hasn't changed that much. I didn't see any photos of Peter...or I may have missed him

Thanks for the additional photos
I recognize some people but not everyone

I didn't realize how much we all got together after school each day until I started typing out my diary and posting them
http://yuetwah.blogspot.com/
I don't know if anyone will find them interesting to read... but it's really been fun for me to read and recall things that I had totally forgotten after so many years.. (I omitted a lot of personal information that only I would be interested in and tried to include any references to our classmates or Yuet Wah)

Thanks again for sending James Lai's email address. I've added it to the growing list

Ernie

June 5, 2007

Hi Harbhajan Singh

How are you after all these years?

I have been meaning to write to you since seeing your photo with the rest of the group

I thought I'd write to say "hello" and to find out what you have been doing all these years.

I had forgotten many names and face at Yuet Wah over the years. But I never forgot you. You were a very colorful figure in my past and I remember how playful you always were. In particular I remember you and your turban. What happened to it???I expected to see you in the photograph you recently took at that Chinese restaurant wearing a turban but was surprised to see you with your white hair. I don't think I ever saw your hair before. I used to call you "Habang" in my diary because I could never remember the spelling of your name. Of course you must be related to the famous Indian Cricket player who adopted your name, right???

After Yuet Wah college Frank and I returned to the United States by ourselves. I was 16 going on 17 at the time. Frank went to San Jose State and majored in Engineering. He still lives in that area today.

I went to Saint Joseph High School in Saint Joseph , Michigan. (I stayed with a friend) This was in 1963.

It was tough getting used to going to school with boys AND GIRLS. Back when we were in Yuet Wah I don't think I hardly ever talked to a girl (not like Johnny Alveres..who was always a ladies man). Plus it was very cold in the winter

During that year I met some kids from a local Baptist Church and became very active in Church activities.

I graduated from High School (now I have two high school diplomas) the following year 1964 and enrolled in Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana.

I later changed to Ft Wayne Bible College in Ft. Wayne from 1965-1968. , Indiana (now Taylor College). and thought that I become a Christian minister.

But those were turbulent years...The blacks were demanding equal rights... the war in Vietnam , the draft, hippies and drugs By the end of my senior year in Bible college I knew I didn't want to become a Christian minister.

So I applied to the Peace Corps and was sent to Thailand.

I started off as an English teacher and later worked with several other Volunteers making television shows (sort of like Sesame Street) for children.
Some Photos from those days
Funny thing is ...I never learned to speak Chinese but I ended up learning to speak Thai. I remember you were fluent in Cantonese. Do you still remember it?

The rest of my history is here at a website I started for the members of our Peace Corps group

My Biography

So now you must tell me "What have you been doing all these years since I last saw you in l963 at Yuet Wah College. It should take you too long to tell me because it was ONLY 44 YEARS AGO.

I notice that you went to Thailand recently. What were you doing there? We visit Thailand often because my wife's family lives there.

I also notice that you live in the US now.

So please tell me about your life after Yuet Wah and what you are doing today.

So good to be found by Victor after all these years and to see everyone's family photos.

If you have a family photo, please send it to me and I will add it to our growing collection

Your old friend

Ernie Geefay

May 30, 2007

Hi Frank:

Thanks to new technology so that we can connect each other all over the world after more than 40 years.

Firstly I must clarify my identity and the names of our old classmates which were not used during our Yuet Wah age.

Keith Leung was an English name I adopted when I emigrated to Vancouver, Canada 20 years
ago, my student's name was Leung Shing Kay. I am now staying in HK but still maintaining a
family in Vancouver.
Stephen Lo's student name was Lo Wing Yiu who is the Chief Officer of the Continental Airlines
of South East Asia. His family is in Tai-Wan but works in HK.
Philip Cheng is Cheng Koon Sum in student time who changed to St. John College since
Form IV.
David Leung's student name was Leung Shu Kong who has emigrated to Vancouver in the
same year as I did and is living there now.
Rosaliayeong's e-mail address is Yeung Tak Hing (Christen Name Benedict) wife's contact
email. (The Captain)
Edmund Lau is Lau Yat Man in student age who is working in New Jerrsey.
Cheung Kung Leung transfered to a HK college since Form III who is a sucessfully garments
manufacturer. You may not know him.

The names of the 1st attached classmates photo are as follows:

Start from Last Row L-R:

Lo Wing Yiu , Cheung Kwai Sun, Lai Wing Lok, Chan Sek Fai, Lai Yick Choi, Victor Kwan.
Cheng Koon Chue, Ho Chi Kwan, Lee Chung Yuen, Leung Shu Kong, Frank Geefay, Paul Chiu
Cheang Kok Chong, Lau Yat Man, Leung Shing Kay, Lee Wing Sun, Ng Wing Chiu, John ???
Chiu Sin Wai, Chiu Shung Chou, Wong Shiu Kwan, E. Geefay, Ho Chen Lam, Wong Kam Tin
Ho Yiu Man (passed away),Yeung Tak Hing, Fr. Cotta, Fr. Rubini, Cheung Shu, Mak Yiu Huen.

The 2nd photo was taken 2 weeks ago when Habhajan visited HK who is living in CT, USA

Were the photos attached in your e-mail taken some years before when you visited Yuet Wah with your Eldest Daughter? I can recognise your face which changed a little bit from student to a handsome young man. But Ernie changed completely, I can't chase any sign from his baby face as a student.

As some of our old classmates suggested, I agree to set up a web-site or web-blog so that we can up-load our precious old or recent photos, events and chat with each other. I suggest to use our Club's Name: Great Bear II as our blog's or web's name. I think Ernie is an expert of setting up this web. I do appreciate Ernie's student diaries which bring us back to 44-46 years ago. Thanks Ernie.

This time I started a new topic because some e-mail addresses has been added or changed: Victor Kuan wants to communicate at the first instant in his office; the e-mail address of Ho Chi Kwan was missed before who is retired in Tai-Wan now


Keith Leung

June 11, 2007

Hi Peter and Paul,

It was so great to meet both of you in San Francisco this Saturday (see photo attached-shows too much of my gray hair). Now that I have met and seen both of you I do remember Paul. I think you were the one who had that cool looking hair style that would have appealed to the girls. I took a look at the 1963 class photo again and saw that you were standing to my immediate left. What a coincident that I would meet you almost a half century later to take another photo this time with you on my right and all a few years older. I don't remember Peter probably because you were one form behind me most of the time because of Mr. Wong (I'll let you tell that story). I don't think I hung out with either of you very much because I was somewhat of a square and by the standards of that time you two were quite the 'rebels without a cause'. It was good hearing those stories about the prank played on Mr. Wong, etc. Too bad I didn't know you both better or I'm sure we could have shared some more interesting stories. My life then was not near as exciting as yours.

I still remember all those strict fathers and teachers. I especially remember Mr. Tzau (can't remember how to spell his name) our Form 5-6 English teacher from the American West Point Army academy. Ran our classroom like an army academy. He seemed to scold us more than teach and talk a lot about West Point and America. But he was as gentle and kind as a kitten outside the classroom. He seemed to be very impressed with Marilyn Monroe as I recall. I also remember a Portuguese English teacher in Form 3 by the name of Mr. Vitalis or maybe I am mixing him with the other English Portuguese teacher, who loved to listen to his Victor Borge record over an over again. He turned me into a Victor Borge fan and I've been listened to his comedy performances ever since until he recently passed away. I remember visiting the Portuguese teachers who lived in some kind of community housing for Portuguese bachelors I think. The more I think about those days long ago the more I begin to remember. The nostalgia of these reminiscences makes me feel a little younger. Maybe someone has a list of all the teacher we had from 1961-1963 in Form 3-5 that they could share with us so that I can refresh my memory. I have a pressing need to feel younger as I not so gracefully age.

It is good to know that both of you are doing so well in spite of Yuet Wah. You have a cool uncle with a very liberal and healthy sense of humor showing us that very funny picture of himself 50 years ago. And your mother looks so young for a person of almost 90. Hope to keep in touch. I may stop by if I come down to the LA area or over to Hong Kong. Take care both of you and thanks for the delicious dim sum lunch. Hope you both get to see Ernie. His memory is much sharper than mine and he can probably share far more stories than I, especially with the help of his high school diary. What a treasure the diary and all those photos have been.

Best Regards,
Frank

June 21, 2007

Hi! Ernie & Frank

I just uploaded a few photos of 1962, some are taken from your home.

Keith

July 10, 2007

Ernie & Frank

I think you are eager to see Father Rubini. Here he comes, we were celebration his 88 years Birthday on July 8.

The other 94 years old Father (I don't know his English Name) who was and is in charge of the Church can be seen in our Re-union 2007 pictures. He was holding a white can of charcoal candy for us to eat.

Keith

July 10, 2007

Hi ! Ernie & Frank

Last Sunday I phoned James at his home. Luckily I got contact with him who just returned from Chicago. We talked about your two brothers. But we discovered we all made a big mistake that he is another James Lai, not the one you mentioned quite often in you diary. He last name in Chinese is different from the other James, but in English they spell the same with the pronunciation a little bit high and low.

He is the James who studied with us from Form 2 to Form 5 or 6. You can find him in our Graduation photo standing next to Victor. The other James left us and went to HK after he finished the 1st semester of Form 3. Until now we have no contact with him.

I asked James Lai to give you an e-mail anyhow. But he said he will be busy for some while and is afraid to disappoint you.

Recently I attended the Graduation Ceremony of Yuet Wah and have written an article in Chinese took few photos showing Victor presented The Scholarship. Can you instruct me how to upload the article with one or two photos within.

Keith

June 17, 2007

Hi! Ernie & Frank:

Did James answer your e-mail? To-day I called James' brother Lai Yik Sang at Macau. He told me James' telephone number You can try to contact him.

Keith

June 13, 2007

Hi Ernie:

I think I am the only one who has kept so many old photos. Because some photos were taken by you not known to other classmates, and we develop them at you home lab.

Did James contact you after his return to Indiana.

Keith

June 13, 2007

Hi Ernie:

I think I am the only one who has kept so many old photos. Because some photos were taken by you not known to other classmates, and we develop them at you home lab.

Did James contact you after his return to Indiana.

June 12, 2007

Do you remember we had a thanksgiving dinner with our teachers and Fathers soon after our Graduation? More than 2 rolls of films of photos were taken that night. Paul was responsible to develop those films. Unfortunately he lost. It is a pity.

Keith

June 12, 2007

George Bush is visiting the Queen of England.

He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government?
Are there any tips you can give me?"
Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself
with intelligent people."
Bush frowns, "But how do I know the people around me are really
intelligent? "
The Queen takes a sip of tea.
Oh, that's easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligence riddle."

The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. "Please send The Prime
Minister in here, would you?"
Tony Blair walks into the room. "Your Majesty...."
The Queen smiles. "Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father
have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"
Without pausing for a moment, Blair answers, "That would be me!"
"Yes! Very good!" says the Queen.

Back at the White House, Bush calls in his vice president, Dick Cheney.
Dick, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's
not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"
I'm not sure," says the vice president. "Let me get back to you on that
one."
Dick Cheney goes to his advisers and asks every one, but none can give
him an answer.

Finally, he ends up in the men's room and recognizes Colin Powell's shoes
in the next stall.
Dick shouts, "Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and father
have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"
Colin Powell yells back, "That's easy. It's me!" Dick Cheney smiles.
Thanks!"

Cheney goes back to the Oval Office and asks to speak with Bush.
Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It's Colin
Powell."
Bush gets up, stomps over to Dick Cheney, and angrily yells into his
face, "No, you idiot! It's Tony Blair!"

Keith